HEATHCOT. 



Synonym* Gore's Heathcot. 



Medium. 2 T 9 g inches long, 2 T inches wide. 

 Form Obovate. 



Skin Greenish yellow, with a few russet dots and streaks. 

 Stem Rather long, and somewhat stout, i of an inch long, I thick, curved, 



inserted in a small russeted cavity. 

 Calyx Partially closed, set in a shallow basin. 

 Core Above medium. 

 Seed Dark brown, long, acuminate, with a point or angle at the obtuse end, 



nearly on a line with the longitudinal axis. 

 Flesh White, fine texture, buttery. 



Flavor Rich, vinous and perfumed, not unlike that of the White Doyenne. 

 Quality" Very good." 



Season of Maturity Last September to middle of October. 

 Leaf- Oval-acuminate, usually folded and recurved, II inches wide, 4J long, 



including petiole, which is II inches long, y 1 * thick. 

 Wood Young shoots, brownish olive; old, dark ferruginous, 

 Groicth Upright, with a bushy head. 



HISTORY, ETC. 



The Heathcot Pear originated from seed planted by Mr. Heathcot, who was 

 at the time a tenant on the farm of Governor Gore, in Maltham, Mass. It came 

 into bearing in 1824, and is probably a seedling of the White Doyenne, which it 

 nearly equals in quality. This variety is a good and regular bearer ; when the 

 tree came to maturity it was introduced to the notice of pomologists by the late 

 Jonathan Winship, Esq., of Brighton. Does not succeed well on quince. 



